A Little Sparkle on Casual Friday

Here we are, embarking on a New Year of Casual Fridays — 49 more of them to go before 2017.

My last Casual post (Sort of Like a PSA) featured an over-sized, somewhat adrogynous jacket — my attempt at mixing it up. But surely you didn’t think I was forsaking the fitted, little jacket? Non, non.

As surely as the sun rises in the east, the Directrice will continue to wear little jackets

Reiterating support for the smart, little jacket

I bought this Rebecca Taylor jacket a couple of years ago. I wasn’t wild about the color, but I loved the cut and fit. The color has since grown on me. It’s a very neutral, light brown — more taupe than true brown — which looks good with medium to dark rinse denim.

The details kind of make the jacket: rhinestone buttons and eyelash fringe finishing the seams. And one very smart dressmaker detail: the vent in the back is actually a kick-pleat. Such a clever choice, because it doesn’t pull the way a vent sometimes will with a fitted jacket.

Rhinestone buttons both dress the jacket up and make it more playful; you could replace nondescript buttons on any jacket with sparklers like these

Like any good photographer, The Photographer has captured my presence, which is in fact 10 feet tall. I do tend to look taller when there is nothing (person, car, garbage can) nearby that might provide scale.

I kind of think the shrunken jacket has moved into the canon of wardrobe basics, you know? It’s a good silhouette, and it’s very helpful to the smaller woman, for whom the shrunken jacket may just fit like a regular petite.

Let’s focus on my excellent posture and not any particular number. My driver’s license says that I am 5’2″ (because I self-reported that height to the DMV), but the last time that I visited the doctor, I was measured and told that I was 5’3″. It was a total paradigm shift.

Great jacket!!! I think you’ve done a great job by letting your shirt hang out beneath it! And as a shoe fanatic—I’m hoping one of these days to get you in a cute pink lace up flat!!! jodiehttp://www.jtouchofstyle.com